>>> original instance of package unmerged safely. * Making device nodes (this could take a minute or so...) * Using generic-i386 to make device nodes... //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/acm=166: No such file or directory //usr/sbin/MAKEDEV: major_usb/tts=188: No such file or directory
Output of 'emerge info' and 'uname -a'. Please try with vanilla kernel ?
Quick question, why is /dev being populated with a ton of files if gentoo uses [and requires] devfs? Nothing is required in /dev at boot except for /dev/console and /dev/null if I recall correctly. james:/# emerge info Portage 2.0.46-r12 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-which: no gcc in (:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/scripts:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/rvplayer:/usr/local/vslick/bin:/usr/local/wp8/wpbin/:/usr/local/alchemy:/usr/local/Amaya/LINUX-ELF/bin:/usr/local/samba/bin:/usr/local/enlightenment/bin:/usr/local/pgsql/bin:/usr/local/vete:/usr/local/vmware:/usr/local/schily/bin:/usr/local/kde/bin:/usr/local/gcc-2.95.3/bin:/usr/local/qt/bin/:/usr/local/kde/bin/) sh: line 1: -dumpversion: command not found, glibc-2.3.1-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.5.59 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm arts avi crypt cups encode gif gpm gtk imlib java jpeg kde gnome libg++ libwww mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pdflib png qt qtmt quicktime sdl spell svga truetype X xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline tcpd pam ssl perl python" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-pipe -O2 -g -mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -I/usr/local/include" CXXFLAGS="" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache" james:/# uname -a Linux james 2.5.59 #3 Fri Jan 31 14:59:56 PST 2003 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
Two fold: 1) Not everybody let the kernel mount /dev 2) Lets call it and further emergency effort .. if you need to boot without devfs. Do you 'mount --bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev' or something before chroot ?
And ?
Need more info.
Ok, got this, and have a fix.
This is fixed in baselayout-1.8.6.6. -------------------------------- 28 Apr 2003; Martin Schlemmer <azarah@gentoo.org> baselayout-1.8.6.6.ebuild : Some of the build images have MAKEDEV in /usr/sbin, and we called it with /usr/sbin/MAKEDEV, which is wrong since we moved it to /sbin. This caused things to break, as we called /usr/sbin/MAKEDEV, and subsequent calls used the copy in /sbin, which is different versions. Add a symlink in /usr/sbin to overwrite the invalide MAKEDEV, and call it via /sbin/MAKEDEV. This should close bug #15299.